Citizenship and Immigration Backlog Reduction Act
Latest action · Nov 2, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedOct 15, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Citizenship and Immigration Backlog Reduction Act - Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to jointly provide to the appropriate congressional committees a plan for ensuring that within 18 months of the date of enactment of this Act the National Name Check Program will no longer have any requested name checks from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in backlog status (as defined by this Act).
States that beginning 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act the Program is not authorized to have any file in backlog status.
Provides that after such date any name check request from USCIS held by the Program for longer than six months shall: (1) be referred to the Secretary who shall adjudicate interim benefits (unless there is reasonable cause to suspect that the applicant poses a threat to national security, otherwise poses a threat to the United States, or has broken U.S. immigration law); and (2) have the name check fee refunded.
Cosponsors 34
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 15, 2007 to Mar 11, 2008, with 13 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Original | Oct 15, 2007 |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Original | Oct 15, 2007 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | Oct 15, 2007 |
| R-CT | Christopher Shays | Original | Oct 15, 2007 |
| D-AZ | Ed Pastor | Original | Oct 15, 2007 |
| D-CO | Ed Perlmutter | Original | Oct 15, 2007 |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Original | Oct 15, 2007 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Oct 15, 2007 |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Original | Oct 15, 2007 |
| D-MN | Keith Ellison | Original | Oct 15, 2007 |
| D-CA | Michael M. Honda | Original | Oct 15, 2007 |
| D-TX | Ruben Hinojosa | Original | Oct 15, 2007 |
| R-NC | Sue Wilkins Myrick | Original | Oct 15, 2007 |
| D-MI | Carolyn C. Kilpatrick | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Oct 24, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 2, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
- Oct 15, 2007Introduced in House
- Oct 15, 2007Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
- Admission of nonimmigrants
- Aliens
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal aliens
- Criminal justice information
- Data banks
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic data interchange
- Electronic government information
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Identification of criminals
- Illegal aliens
- Immigration
- Planning
- Productivity in government
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Terrorism
- User charges
- Visas
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 15, 2007Introduced in House
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